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Inside the bubble caves, the animals were seen either floating awake on the surface, sleeping vertically at the surface, or sleeping motionless on the sea floor. "These wet, less accessible and ...

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Mediterranean monk seals are among the rarest pinnipeds in the world. Zafer Kizilkaya / Oregon State University via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 When summer tourism heats up, Mediterranean monk seals ...